Contacts again!!

Jemma:
We did some work on her contacts today and where I was tellnig her to stop, me being ahead of her/continuing to run and by the end she was doing some nice contacts :) We also did some work on our weaves, our entrances definately need work, she doesn't slow down enough to allow herself to make it back through the second gap if she at a dodgy angle. We then did some pull throughs which she did nicely when I got it right :) Started off a bad lesson with the course going horribly wrong, finished with a nice course and it all going nicely (apart from the weave angle still - definately something to work on!!)

Elliot:
We did some jumping with him and he was a good boy, didnt go under any today, I learnt as well that he is not the same as jem, if i move away from a jump move he has taken it he comes too whereas jem would take the jump and then come, he just needs a little more encouragement at the moment to build up his confidence. We worked on ten weaves and he is soooo much better!! just need to work on the entrance and pole 5-6 (I think) as he likes to always miss this one, does the rest though, i think his striding just gets out so he has to miss one to get back in (if that makes sense). Then, for the final 5 mins we started training contacts again :) We are training him with stop contacts because I feel he is too literal to do target training, he sees target and thinks "touch target with nose" he doesn't think "touch target with nose with two feet on and two feet off the contact" so we shall see how we go :)

My homework with both dogs is to teach them left and right as I noticed Easter weekend a few occasions where these verbal commands would have come in handy!!